By Swastika Sahu
Fourteen-year batting prodigy Vaibhav Suryavanshi has broken all the record books during the opening day of the 2025-26 season of the Vijay Hazare Trophy, becoming the youngest person to record a century in men’s List A cricket at the age of 14 years and 272 days.
Playing against Arunachal Pradesh in his ninth List A game, for Bihar, he scored this double hundred in just 36 deliveries. Suryavanshi is also known as the fastest delivery of 150. Reaching 59 deliveries, before finally getting dismissed for 190 off 84 balls – an innings that scored 16 boundaries and 15 sixes.
Suryavanshi etched his name in the IPL this year when he dispatched a six on the first delivery he received. He has been practicing hard in the academy hosted by the Indian Cricket and was instrumental in Rajasthan Royals’ triumphant chase of Gujarat Titans’ 209 in a knock in which he scored an awe-inspiring century in just 35 balls that consisted of 11 sixes.
The teenager sensation made him the youngest player to be ever selected at number thirteen in the IPL auction. He scored 252 runs while sustaining an incredible strike rate of 205.55 in all for the course of seven tournament games.
Suryavanshi has been realizing his potential in the international youth circuit too. When he took part in the T20 Under-19 Asia Cup match in the UAE last month, he scored 171 runs in mere 95 balls. Such performance has made him reach only six runs away from the record of Ambati Rayudu’s score of 177 in 2002, which remains currently the record by an Indian in the youth One-Day Internationals
He has also broken history in Kolkata recently to emerge as the youngest centurion in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy game, which ended in his undefeated 108 off 61 deliveries against Maharashtra. Due to his involvement in international commitments, it is likely that Suryavanshi would get to play only in the first phase of the Vijay Hazare trophy match. He has to join the Indian under 19 team that would soon be off to a preparatory camp in Bengaluru before proceeding to the World Cup scheduled to take part in Zimbabwe on January 15.
Last month, Instagram featured Vaibhav Sooryavanshi through its official account, which made Vaibhav, the second Indian cricketer, only behind Virat Kohli, to receive such an accolade.